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This is the official podcast of the Space & Satellite Professionals International. On this channel, we release podcasts in two series: Making Leaders and Better Satellite World.Find out more about SSPI at www.sspi.org
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- 2 days ago1h 0m
Resilient by Design: Emerging Technologies for the Future of Space
As space becomes more congested, contested, and interconnected, resilience has to extend across the full space architecture. In this SSPI-WISE conversation, moderator Krista Hazen speaks with Caitlin Marsh, President of Kepler Communications U.S., and Kristin Houston, CEO of Rocketdyne. They bring perspectives from communications infrastructure, national security, power, propulsion, mobility, and commercial space operations. Their conversation explores what resilience means as the space environment changes, vulnerabilities across the space ecosystem, optical connectivity, power and propulsion, autonomy and artificial intelligence, customer requirements, launch capacity, integrated architectures, and the workforce future missions will require. Caitlin also discusses Kepler's optical network, on-orbit computing, hosted payload capabilities, and the work required to expand the company's United States organization and partnerships. <p class="Paragraph SCXW165932000 BCX2" style= "font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 1
- 1 weeks ago42 min
Hacking the Jungle: Building Space for Earth
How does a space ecosystem move from an empty incubator to a globally recognized center of commercial activity? Stuart Martin joins SSPI Executive Director Tamara Bond-Williams to reflect on the growth of the Harwell space cluster and the model that guided the Satellite Applications Catapult: identify the barrier, build what the market needs, and move on when others can carry the work forward. Stuart explains why European space companies now face a scale-up funding gap, how the Space for Earth Growth Fund aims to attract larger pools of capital, and why he believes space-based solar power has reached an economic tipping point. The conversation also examines careers in the AI era, orbital congestion, insurance exposure, circular use of space hardware, and the commercial activities that may expand human life and work in space.
- 2 weeks ago31 min
What Has to Change on the Ground?
Satellite constellations are multiplying, orbits are diversifying, and the infrastructure needed to connect them to Earth is expanding rapidly. What does all that growth mean for the satellite ground segment? In this episode of the SSPI Podcast, Tamara Bond-Williams welcomes Scott Mumford, CEO of Go Global Communications, one of SSPI's newest corporate members. Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience in satellite communications, including leading Liquid Telecom Satellite Services across Africa, Scott brings an engineering and commercial perspective to the changing ground segment. Scott explains why LEO constellations require more geographically distributed gateways, how evolving technical demands are reshaping ground infrastructure, and what it takes to build and support satellite networks around the world. He also shares how Go Global Comms is responding to these changes and what the company hopes to contribute to the SSPI community. Learn more about SSPI at https://www.sspi.org.
- 3 weeks ago53 min
SSPI-WISE Presents: Ready to Lead: Carol Craig on Risk, Reslience and Making Your Own Path
Carol Craig did not set out to become a naval aviator, launch a company, take a space company public, or spend her career navigating one rapidly changing industry after another. Her path kept changing, and she learned how to change with it. In this SSPI-WISE conversation, Carol joins Lyn Chassagne to talk about the experiences that shaped her approach to leadership, from becoming one of the first women eligible to fly in U.S. Navy combat aircraft to founding Craig Technologies and building Sidus Space. Their conversation explores L1[resilience in the face of unexpected change, learning when to take a risk, building trustworthy partnerships, navigating leadership as a woman in a male-dominated industry, making room for family while building a career, and knowing when an opportunity to lead may require finding a new path.] Carol also reflects on mentorship, board service, entrepreneurship, the future of the space industry, and one piece of advice she believes emerging leaders should remember: "You deserve to be here." This conversation was originally presented as an SSPI-WISE All Members Meeting. Learn more about SSPI-WISE and Space & Satellite Professionals International at SSPI.org.
- 4 weeks ago47 min
Credible Optimism: What UK Space Needs Next
What does UK space look like after four and a half years at the head of its space agency? Dr. Paul Bate joins SSPI Executive Director Tamara Bond-Williams for a wide-ranging conversation about what he can see now that he has stepped outside the UK Space Agency and into academia. Paul reflects on the UK's growing role in European and international missions, the importance of relationships when geopolitical systems are under stress, and a possible new model for collaborative, digital-first space R&D. He also explains why the sector needs credible optimism and distinguishes that discipline from hype, what a UK Space and Satellite Personality of the Year should champion, and why space sustainability requires deeper independent research into the orbital and atmospheric environment. <span class="TextRun SCXW241002292 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style= "color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.75px;
- Oct 1, 202648 min
Collateral Risk, Episode 5: Partnership and Risk
What does it take to build a commercial space partnership when market opportunity, national security, and regulation all cross the same border? In Collateral Risk, Episode 5, Tamara Bond-Williams speaks with Fuhua Ni, founding and managing partner of Shanghai Zenith Law Firm, about the changing legal environment around China's commercial space sector. Fuhua traces the sector's growth since the government opened more room for commercial participation in 2014. He explains why companies face a fragmented regulatory landscape, how commercial and dual-use activities overlap, and where export-control systems such as ITAR and EAR shape the practical limits of international deals. The conversation also examines the Wolf Amendment, a proposed CSIS report on areas of possible US–China cooperation, and the effort to establish an SSPI China chapter. Throughout, Fuhua returns to a central question: how can professional relationships and clearer legal frameworks reduce risk without ignoring genuine political and security constraints?<span class= "EOP Selected SCXW197477094 BCX2" style= "font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15px; font-family: Aptos, 'Aptos_EmbeddedFont', 'Aptos_MSFontService', sans-serif;" data-ccp-props= "{"201341
- Sep 24, 202633 min
Why I Serve, Episode 4: with Shruti Vyas
What happens when you build a career around curiosity rather than a predetermined destination? In this episode of Why I Serve, we meet Shruti Vyas, Head of Programmes at SES and a member of the SSPI Board of Directors. Shruti's career has moved across satellite engineering, sales, procurement, insurance, risk management and launch management. She says those moves were guided by a simple principle: a career should carry forward a storyline. <span class="EOP Selected SCXW266877197 BCX2" style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16px; font-family: Aptos, 'Aptos_EmbeddedFont', 'Aptos_MSFontService', sans-serif;" data-ccp-props= "{"201
- Sep 17, 20261h 2m
The Industrial Base Behind Defense of Space
Defense of space begins long before launch. It depends on the industrial base that can deliver components, ground systems, financing, insurance, contracting, manufacturing capacity, and commercial services when national-security missions need them. In The Industrial Base Behind Defense of Space, SSPI and the New York Space Business Roundtable convene an in-person discussion at Milbank in Hudson Yards. Moderator Tamara Bond-Williams speaks with Zack Hester of Novaspace, Quadri Bello of Empire Space, Col. Tim Trimailo of Space Systems Command, David Myers of Applied Aerospace and Defense, Chris Kunstadter of Triton Space, and Dara Panahy of Milbank. The conversation asks where commercial space can move faster, where contracts and capital create bottlenecks, how insurance and flight heritage shape risk, and what the Northeast can contribute to a more resilient defense space ecosystem. </p
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